👋 Hello from the Heropa team! Today we’re releasing a powerful new feature that gives you more flexibility when managing protected environments—while keeping them safe from destructive actions.

Override protection when you need to make changes

Protected environments are designed to safeguard critical resources from accidental changes or deletion. But what if you just need to tweak a setting or make a small update—without removing protection entirely?

You can now override protection on a protected environment, allowing you to make non-destructive changes while preserving guardrails around high-value environments.

Here’s how it works:

• When you attempt to modify a protected environment, a confirmation modal will now appear with a new “Override protection” option
• Selecting this will trigger a second confirmation, ensuring the action is intentional
• Each override is recorded in the audit log, environment history, and user history for traceability

Additional safety improvements

To further protect critical environments, we’ve removed destructive actions from protected environments:

• Destroy Environment and Reset Environment are no longer available in the action menus
• You can no longer delete or protect individual VMs within a protected environment

These changes help ensure that only intentional, safe updates are made—keeping your environments secure and your audit trail complete.

We hope this update gives you a better balance of flexibility and control. Let us know what you think—or if there’s anything else you’d like to see added!